Until Android and iPhone, the U.S.was at least 2 decades behind Europe and Asia in mobile electronics.
I remember just a few years back when the bar code square box was bleeding edge here and rarely seen whereas it'd been a mainstay overseas for like forever.
As I mentioned in another thread, if not for the Scandanavians and Asians Bluetooth would still be not much more than a phone call option. We'd still be arguing and debating over boom mics or short units and what's the best noise reduction on our earpiece.
We sometimes forget on this little island called the United States, while we get zoned into hdtv and 5+" phone screens the rest of the world moved way forward decades ago. It's standard vs metric all over again as we resist the conversion once again. Japan (Sony) had a watch capable of making phone calls back when I was using an LG flip phone that had this new fangled music player embedded and external storage capability and GAGIN and Bitpim were THE thing to use to add our own ringtones without paying or carrier a hefty fee per tone, before the iPhone was even an AT&T exclusive. It only worked on their version of wcdma so it never was attempted to sell off the islands and the rest of the world said "wow that's pretty cool" then went back to sleep.
Speaking of sleep, Nokia phones could be powered off yet still be used as an alarm clock before digital phones were the mainstay here, something that to this day hasn't been repeated on any model by anybody, except for BlackBerry that had an ability to deep sleep the device and mimic that feature.
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